Remains of a 1500-Year-Old City Uncovered in Amazonian Jungle

Mega Anthropology: Remains of a 1500-Year-Old City Uncovered in Amazonian Jungle: "A 1500-year-old Amazonian city, full of artificial lakes, large public plazas, and agricultural regions (including fish farms), is being excavated and mapped for the first time in modern memory. Until recently, the remains of the ancient city had been almost completely hidden by jungle. A group of Brazilian and U.S. researchers report in tomorrow's issue of Science that they used satellite photos to determine that the now-vanished city was structured as a group of small towns connected by roads, ditches, and shared farmlands. The researchers say the lifestyle here was clearly 'urbanism,' and compared it to cities that one might have seen in Ancient Greece or medieval Europe."